[wx-dev] Re: ellipsize in wxStaticText (Re: wxStaticText GTK woes)

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:13:57 +0100 Francesco Montorsi <f18m_cpp217828 at yahoo.it> wrote:

FM> In that case, when showing a path in a wxStaticText the programmer may want to 
FM> show to the user always the first part of the path because e.g. the user is 
FM> interested in the volume and not to the complete path.

 This should be exceedingly rare (I'd use MIDDLE here) but even in such
case I don't see why should it be different between LTR and RTL?

FM> When in LTR I suppose the path "C:\a\b\c" gets mirrored ("c\b\a\:C")

 Yes.

FM> and thus if the programmer wants to show the first part he needs to use
FM> wxST_DOTS_START...

 Yes, in both cases.

 Regards,
VZ